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Transport and communications statistics for the 3rd quarter of 2018


Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that as at the end of September 2018, total number of licensed motor vehicles dropped by 1.2% year-on-year to 238,792, of which light motorcycles (26,626) decreased by 11.2% whereas heavy motorcycles (96,935) rose by 1.0%. New registration of motor vehicles in the third quarter fell by 25.8% year-on-year to 3,392. Meanwhile, new registration of motor vehicles in the first three quarters of 2018 went down by 8.0% year-on-year to 10,887, with heavy motorcycles (5,635) dropping by 20.9%.

There were 3,480 cases of traffic accidents in the third quarter of 2018 and number of victims totalled 1,041, down by 10.3% and 19.2% respectively year-on-year. In the first three quarters of 2018, number of traffic accidents decreased by 7.1% year-on-year to 10,297 cases, resulting in 3,225 casualties and 6 of them were killed.

Cross-border vehicular traffic grew marginally by 0.5% year-on-year to 1,216,562 in the third quarter of 2018. In the first three quarters of 2018, cross-border vehicular traffic rose by 1.5% to 3,639,563; vehicular traffic through the Checkpoint of Cotai (30.3% of total) increased by 16.4%, while that through the Border Gate (68.8%) dropped by 3.8%. Passenger ferry movements between Macao and Mainland China and between Macao and Hong Kong went down by 3.1% year-on-year to 32,618 trips in the third quarter, and movements in the first three quarters of 2018 fell by 5.1% to 99,109 trips.

Commercial flight movements at the Macau International Airport totalled 15,875 in the third quarter of 2018, up by 13.8% year-on-year. In the first three quarters of 2018, commercial flight movements increased by 13.4% year-on-year to 45,728, with those to and from Mainland China, Thailand and Taiwan growing by 19.7%, 18.5% and 1.5% respectively, whereas those to and from the Republic of Korea and Vietnam falling by 14.8% and 6.1% respectively. Helicopter flight movements between Macao and Mainland China and between Macao and Hong Kong went up by 8.8% year-on-year to 3,055 in the third quarter, and movements in the first three quarters of 2018 rose by 6.2% to 9,449.

In the third quarter of 2018, gross weight of containerized cargo by land grew by 21.1% year-on-year to 3,913 tonnes, and seaborne containerized cargo rose by 14.8% to 44,346 tonnes. Seaborne container throughput amounted to 34,635 TEU, equivalent to 23,697 containers handled, up by 7.4% and 4.6% respectively. In the first three quarters of 2018, gross weight of containerized cargo by land decreased by 3.6% year-on-year to 11,166 tonnes, of which cargo passing through the Checkpoint of Cotai (10,578 tonnes) accounted for 94.7%; gross weight of seaborne containerized cargo increased by 2.1% year-on-year to 124,870 tonnes, with 52.5% (65,567 tonnes) passing through the Inner Harbour. Seaborne container throughput rose by 6.9% year-on-year to 100,917 TEU in the first three quarters, equivalent to 68,889 containers handled, up by 4.6%.

The Macau International Airport handled 9,150 tonnes of air cargo in the third quarter of 2018, down slightly by 0.2% year-on-year. Air cargo increased by 6.0% year-on-year to 28,098 tonnes in the first three quarters of 2018, with inward cargo (5,159 tonnes) and outward cargo (17,874 tonnes) rising by 8.2% and 10.5% respectively. Meanwhile, transit cargo (5,065 tonnes) dropped by 9.0%.

As at the end of September 2018, number of fixed-line telephone subscribers decreased by 5.3% year-on-year to 126,401. Number of mobile phone subscribers rose by 11.4% to 2,307,628, with stored-value GSM card subscribers (1,534,778) taking up 66.5%. Number of internet subscribers increased by 7.7% year-on-year to 417,900. In the third quarter of 2018, the cumulative duration of internet usage edged down by 0.5% year-on-year to 311 million hours, and the duration of usage reached 928 million hours in the first three quarters of 2018, up marginally by 0.5%.



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